ILX'S 100 GREATEST VIDEO GAMES EVER

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Well I would have voted for the Sims and Oblivion anyway which won't have made much difference.

I've never played Civ. I suppose I really should, some time.

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dom what was my ballot? I sent it to you through ILX-mail and I don't appear to have saved a text copy

anyway classic, classic results, well done everyone.
I do wish more people would post to ILG for general discussion of stuff. Maybe I should move my RCR thread over there

people complaining should have been perhaps more fastidious during the nomination period, Diablo II being Blizzard's only contribution to these results is kind of ZUH

san andreas is not the best gta

yeah, I heard they made another one after that.

Is there an animated gif of John Saxon w/ gasmask doing a hearty double thumbs-up?

Wolfenstein over Doom? really?

i personally always preferred wolfenstein because you got to shoot actual human beings, said el tomboto

i hope that worked

great poll, Dom! thanks for your work!

yeah, I heard they made another one after that.

-- El Tomboto, Sunday, May 4, 2008 9:49 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

great game but so messy in terms of bugs + graphics, too ambitious for tech of the time

wut

san andreas is really sluggish. i could never get into it.

x-post to zs

i think deej thought tom meant san andreas

wait, i just confoozled myself

hahahaha

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(ps, lovers of Chuckie Egg etc may freely mock my vote for Commander Keen, representative of countless not-quite-as-good-as-Mario PC shareware platformers from the golden age of the BBS.)

I ended up playing lots of these kind've things - I've got very fond memories of Commander Keen IV ... not too many other games have replicated the, uh, Macauley Culkin-goes-scifi-goes-Bugs-Bunny feel of it, & the sounds effects from the original series (the ice-block cannon) sporadically haunt me. Keen instead of Mario, Wacky Wheels instead of Mario Kart, Jazz Jackrabbit instead of Sonic ... TS: Apogee vs Epic Megagames. My Dad REGISTERED Paganitzu! Crystal Caves, Tyrian, Raptor ...

Some more: this game was ridiculously fun in 1992! So long as you played it on your uncle's computer with the good sound card and the good processor - it was BLINDINGLY fast and the sounds just seemed MASSIVE - especially the chaingun. And the Nazi exclamations! Okay, banging around smacking spacebar and hoping to find secret doors got old fast, and the whole game looks basically the same, but compared to anything else I was playing at the time it was amazing. And yeah, the violence - cartoony though it seems now - was otherwise unavailable on my PC. The shock of the new!

Yeah, I voted for it largely on "seminal" terms and because its successor DOOM weren't available - but I really did play the hell out of Wolf/Spear.

OTM.

I'm kind've surprised JRPGs didn't do better - I figured they'd be the silent-majority equivalent of Radiohead on all those ILM polls.

I can't remember too much from Epic Megagames besides Jill of the Jungle and Jazz Jackrabbit - whereas Apogee had the Keen series, plus a host of lesser but still diverting shareware smashes - Cosmo, the one with the kid in the horror setting, Secret Agent, the original Duke Nukem, Major Stryker, etc. Oh, shit, Raptor! Now that actually had some sweet graphics.

As far as Keen goes, IV and VI are where it's at, for sure. IV for the music, and VI for the name "Fribbulus Xax."

We never registered a god damn thing. :(

When we do this again the top 20 should just be C64 games with digitized speech.

New ILX motto: "AHH. ANOTHER VISITOR. STAY AWHILE. STAYYYY FOREVER!"

That David Kushner book Masters of Doom has a, uh, dramatic re-telling of how the smooth scrolling of Commander Keen was stumbled upon, if you haven't read it - really punchy narrative.

the one with the kid in the horror setting
Monster Bash! Creepiest thing about that game was the kid's jumpsuit or whatever; the look of the thing wasn't as crisp/clean as Crystal Caves/Secret Agent (though that wasn't as much of a problem for Jill Of The Jungle - the grainyness worked for the setting) ... Hocus Pocus & Mystic Towers were entertaining, Rise Of The Triad was really WEIRD 3d shooter coming after Doom (all those hallucinogenic/environment altering "powerups"!) ... I kind've forgive Epic everything for One Must Fall: 2097, the only successful attempt at a PC fighting game - console/arcade fighters couldn't pull off the upgrading-yr-robot/pilot system that made it so fun. Has TOMBOT played it?
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No Arkanoid/Breakout (or PONG!) games in the list!

oh fuck yeah I played the hell out of some OMF. The boss mech was such a fucking cheater. best bot was the FLAIL by a long shot

"That David Kushner book Masters of Doom"

great book! really entertaining

Damn, I read like 3 pages of it and gave it back to my ex. He'd said "if you ever want to understand me and what I do, this book will do that".

I feel bad for not reading it now.

Fucking Rygar People!!!!

I forgot to cast my ballot in time, though, so I can't really complain. I'm also sorry to see that Ninja Gaiden didn't make the cut either, but then my gaming salad days span from about 1988 to 1993. Great work Dom!

Civ II is kind of weird in that I've played it the most of any Civ and it's obviously terrific, but it also has bad parts (caravan trading, micromanagement) that the later games fixed. And yet it's still my favorite.

OTM

Phil if you want to play a championship manager and don't know about football, start with CM2, it's way easier to get into and you won't notice the players are old.

Phil if you want to play a championship manager and don't know about football, start with CM2, it's way easier to get into and you won't notice the players are old.

maybe i'll just stick to romance of the three kingdoms 8. they cant be that much different anyway?

No Arkanoid/Breakout (or PONG!) games in the list!

Arkanoid is on the list. It shouldn't be.

Best breakout = the one free w/the ZX Spectrum.

Oops, my bad re: Arkanoid; eyes glazed over around then. I think what I meant was (it is the nineties and is time for) KLAX! My favourite Breakout clone was Ghox, which had, uh, monsters & spells.
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There are few games in the marketplace that Chris has not mastered. He has extensive experience at playing video games and diciphering (sic) their patterns and techniques of play. His analytical mind automatically envisions patterns and virtual line drawings of the games. He currently logs more than 8 hours of play per day and has been coined by his peers and friends as the 'Human Video Game'.

I missed all yesterday so I need to sit down and read this when my eyes are uncrossed and I'm marginally less pukey but as a quick observation TETRIS IS NOT THE NUMBER 2 GAME EVER YOU CLUELESS ASPIE RUBES FUCK YOU FUCK YOU ALL DIE MOTHERFUCKER DIE MOTHERFUCKER DIE

Ahem.

My votes, which I'm wondering if Dom got cos I voted highest for some of this shit and never got no credit at all WHY DID YOU HAVE TO EQUALISE WATFORD YOU JAMMY TOSSBAGS?

1. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
2. Morrowind
3. Tomb Raider
4. Sid Meier's Civilization II
5. Half-Life
6. Grand Theft Auto III
7. Championship Manager/Football Manager series (Sports Interactive)
8. The Secret of Monkey Island II: Le Chuck's Revenge
9. Lords of Midnight
10. Dragontorc
11. We Love Katamari
12. Eye of the Beholder II
13. Treasure Island Dizzy
14. Super Mario World
15. Super Mario Brothers 3
16. Sonic the Hedgehog
17. Rainbow Islands
18. Lemmings
19. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
20. Monkey Island
21. Sid Meier's Pirates!
22. Super Mario Brothers 2
23. Nethack
24. Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past
25. Worms
26. Q-Bert
27. Cannon Fodder
28. Head Over Heels
29. Football Manager series (Kevin Tom)
30. Defender

ONE MUST FALL, OMG

people complaining should have been perhaps more fastidious during the nomination period, Diablo II being Blizzard's only contribution to these results is kind of ZUH

-- El Tomboto, Monday, 5 May 2008 02:41 (10 hours ago) Link

i would've if i even KNEW ABOUT IT YOU SIMPERING LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY FAGBABY

you people. YOUUUU PEOPLE

Shit, I forgot about the robot upgrade thing in One Must Fall! Really great idea - I've always thought fighting games that played more like RPGs were an under-explored genre.

srsly, that game almost made me fail out of school

too many nintendo players for this poll to be valid

^^^^^^

that's like me saying "why so many games for pc and not mac"

but theyre all the same game

My thirty, lower-than-100 bolded for sadness's sake:

1. Chrono Trigger
2. Fallout
3. Final Fantasy Tactics
4. Metal Gear Solid
5. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
6. Worms Armageddon
7. Super Mario Brothers 3
8. Portal
9. Tetris
10. Super Mario World
11. Suikoden II (TOMBOT TELL ME YOU PLAYED THE PS1 SUIKO GAMES... also the fifth one is good)
12. Half-Life 2
13. Championship Manager/Football Manager series (Sports Interactive)
14. Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation (so good)
15. Castlevania: Symphony Of the Night
16. Mars Matrix
17. Xenogears
18. SNK vs. Capcom 2
19. River City Ransom
20. Bioshock
21. Final Fantasy XII
22. Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved
23. Rez
24. Shadow of the Colossus
25. PacMan
26. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (seems like the perfect game for an ilxor)
27. Warlords
28. Planescape: Torment
29. Final Fantasy VII
30. Earthbound (i am SHOCKED)

I'd love to see the HMs, the ones who never quite made 100, because seriously I'll be shocked if Earthbound isn't #101 or something.

too many cheetos drenched GTA dorks fuck you

Most overrated game of the 90s? That screenshot says it all - four hideous deformed freaks in a completely undifferentiated space. My friend Matt and I played this a couple years ago, and every deathmatch ended with us running out of time before we even found each other to try and shoot it out. Like, "OK, I'm gonna stand still in this room. You come here and shoot me." "Fuck, how do I get over there?" This game sucks.

-- Doctor Casino, Sunday, 4 May 2008 19:01 (Yesterday) Link

what the hell ever consider that maybe YOU sucks???

that championship manager game looks like something i would definitely geek out over if i was british or there was an american equiv

no GTA:Mario Cart?

for all the complaining about too many nintendo games i am way disappointed there is no excitebike

that championship manager game looks like something i would definitely geek out over if i was british or there was an american equiv

-- deeznuts, Monday, 5 May 2008 17:55 (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Sports Interactive's American connects have worked on these two games, never played them though so I have no idea if they're in the same quality bracket:

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